We returned to camp before the sun went behind the hills, with our fish ready for the pan, and our boatmen provided us with a meal of jerked venison, pork, and trout, which an epicure might envy, and to which a hard day's journey and an appetite sharpened by the bracing influence of the pure mountain air, gave a peculiar relish.

There were a few spoonfuls of meal in the bottom of the bag and a little end of bacon, mostly rind.

Because the mice lick meal at Rome, you say.

He informed us that he was an experimental farmer; and when he learnt that we were strangers, and anxious to inform ourselves of the state of agriculture in the country, he very civilly invited us to take our next meal with him.

She had no heart, however, for anything, and did not even make any attempt to prepare a meal for her husband.

During the progress of this meal on the Friday morning, in the small hours of which had been enacted the scene described at the end of the previous chapter, it became evident that "something was up."

mbered the Koyukun song, "Thanks for a good meal to Kuskokala, the Shamán.

By all the rules of arithmetic, the daily subtraction of three meals from the store should have lightened the load.

This turned the meal into one long wrangle, in which the high fundamentals of government in Church and State were debated by two choleric gentlemen.

, Gold-breathing alchemists also we have, Both which are subtle-witted humourists, That get their meals by telling miracles, Which they have seen in travelling the skies.

If, however, there be time merely to take a necessary meal before midnight (e.g., to prepare for a late Mass on next day, Sunday), and not time to eat and to recite, the obligation of saying the Hours ceases.

See ante, i. 355, and ii. 94 for Johnson's appeal to meals as a measure of vexation.

Now by the time that we had brought over, each of us, two loads of the fuel, we found the meat to be cooked, and so, without more to-do, set ourselves down and made a very good meal off it and some biscuits, after which we had each of us a sound tot of the rum.

Thomas Newcome had now been for three years in the possession of that joy which his soul longed after, and yet in spite of his happiness, his honest face grew more melancholy, his loose clothes hung only the looser on his lean limbs; he ate his meals without appetite; his nights were restless and he would sit for hours silent, and was constantly finding business which took him to distant quarters of England.

The canteen is open every hour of the twenty-four, and the women conductors at the end of each run usually take a bite, and then have a substantial meal during the long break of an hour and a half in the middle of the ten-hour day.

Your lawyers, all the termtime, hire me of my lady; your gallants, if they hear my name abused, they stab for my sake; your travellers so doat upon me as passes.[209] O, they have good reason; for I have carried them to many a good meal under the countenance of my familiarity.

As they went down the stairs another contingent began to straggle up, having eaten a hasty meal after their night's work, and making now for certain of the just-vacated beds.

The said friends camp all round the hospital, and it is pretty to see them at sunset, each cooking his evening meal over his own little fire.

"And at what hour," he asked, "do you partake of a meal like that?"

His wages are usually double those of a common sailor, and he eats and sleeps in the cabin; but he is obliged to be on deck nearly all his time, and eats at the second tablethat is, makes a meal out of what the captain and the chief mate leave.

This is a very necessary meal between an early breakfast and a late dinner, as a healthy person, with good exercise, should have a fresh supply of food once in four hours.

All pawned and eatenand for her, you know, She never bore the worth of one day's meal About her dress.

Is it credible that, to represent such a meal amongst ourselves, we select a Roman word so notoriously expressing a mere shadow, a pure apology, that very few people ever tasted itnobody sate down to itnot many washed their hands after it, and gradually the very name of it became interchangeable with another name, implying the slightest possible act of trying or sipping?

"The first set of the first series of experiments consists of seven observations, of twenty-four hours' duration each, in the months of July and August, with three barely sufficient meals per diem, in quantities as nearly equal each day as could be managed, and only spring-water to drink.

I have never been ill a daynever consulted a physician in a professional way, and in fact, never missed a meal through inability to eat.